“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Generosity and pride – Kahlil Gibran
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
– Kahlil Gibran
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Great affairs – Nicholas Chamfort
“In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.”
– Nicholas Chamfort
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Thinking – William James
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”
– William James
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Snowflake – Voltaire
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
– Voltaire
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Prejudices – Tryon Edwards
“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”
– Tryon Edwards
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Over-analyzing – Tupac
“You can spend, minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened – or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
-Tupac
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Enough – William Blake
“You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.”
– William Blake
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Look on the upside – Jimmy Carr
“I try to look on the upside. If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice: once in your mind and once when it happens. Deal with it once, then move on.”
– Jimmy Carr
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Technology – Max Frisch
“Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.”
– Max Frisch
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Regret – Kierkegaard
“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.”
– Kierkegaard
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Intelligent life – Bill Patterson
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
– Bill Patterson
“You will think a lot less about what people think of you when you realise how seldom they do.”
– David Foster Wallace
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All wars – François Fénelon
“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers”
– François Fénelon
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I contain multitudes
“I contradict myself? Very well then; I am large, I contain multitudes.”
– Walt Whitman